Georgie Fame & The Harry South Big Band - Sound Venture flac album

Georgie Fame was just beginning to settle down into a more comfortable, and certainly less hell-raisingly energetic mood as he hit his fourth album, and Sound Venture - his second successive British Top Tenner - does slow down accordingly. But only in comparison with its barnstorming predecessors

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The Georgie Fame and the Harry South Big Band album from 1966 has been remastered and expanded with the addition of 9 Bonus Tracks. I thought the vinyl LP version of Sound Venture was great when I first heard it, many years ago. But this CD version also has a few great extra bonus tracks.

By the time Clive Powell, renamed Georgie Fame by Rock ‘n’ Roll impresario Larry Parnes, moved over from Columbia Records to CBS at the tail end of 1966 he was a firmly established recording artist and live attraction. In the early days with his backing combo the Blue Flames he had delighted the Mods with his mix of Blues, cool Jazz and Ska at legendary 60s clubs the Flamingo and The Scene. The Blue Flames, such a big part of Fame’s live success, were handed their cards and in their place the Georgie Fame Band appeared. The Two Faces Of Fame was originally supposed to be a live album, recorded with both his new backing outfit and also the Harry South Big Band (who played behind Fame on his previous album Sound Venture, which somewhat pre-empted the sound of The Two Face.